Hocky Cocky

According to an article in the newspaper "The Sunday post" the song "The Hocky Cocky" ( or if you are American "The Hocky Pockey") is anti-Catholic. Apparently when it was first performed it was to take the mickey out of the priesthood ( although I feel those pointy hats did that already) and the words about putting left hand in and left hand out etc were all about the movements the priest made during the mass ritual. So the Catholic church want this song banned and especially baned and football matches for fear it will be used as sectarian chanting. My feeling on this are 1. Very few people knew the original reason for this song, for the vast majority it is a fun song sung at parties for many,many years. 2. The song has been sung on the football terraces for years so to ban it now would be unfair.3. Nobody would have know about it's original meaning if the church had not told them, they are creating trouble when there was none previously.

So my words to the catholic church are these. I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you allow the use of Condom's in high AIDS countries, I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you allow women to become priests and I will stop singing "The Hockey Cockey" if you stop covering up for the emotional,physical and sexual abuse of the children in the churches care over the years. So do we have a deal?

Winter Solstice

It's the Winter Solstice on Sunday, a time that many Pagans use to celebrate the birth and rebirth of the Sun God. I don't celebrate the solstice that way; for me it IS a celebration of birth and of re birth but the birth (and re birth) of my awareness of Satan and of the ending of the dogma of which I had previously been told to believe. I like to call this awareness " The Awakening" click here for my sermon on this idea. Going into a new year it is hoped that my knowledge ( and love) of Satan will grow as the year grows older.

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Samhain

It will soon be the Samhain ( Oct 31) which is also the Pagan new year. This time of year we, Pagans, look back on our year and be thankful for all experiences we have had, be them good or bad. We also start thinking of the future and what we plan to achieve in the coming year. For me I know that I want to be more pro-active in my Religion, I want to make more of an effort to celebrate Rite's, rituals and Holidays. I feel that over the past year all those have been put aside for no real reason well perhaps laziness. I have been so caught up in the mundane things in life that the spiritual has been forgotten and for me the spiritual is just as important. Sure I pray every day and I help others with their religious and spiritual problems but i have neglected my own spiritual side. So the new year for me will bring balance and that is good.

An awesome pro- Christian rant

This is from the American comedian Margret Cho. It truly is a great read. In between the jokes and the swearing she really does have some amazing things to say. You can tell that her dad was a minister.

I’m a Christian, you FuckersAll kinds of Christians are getting mad about my Sarah Palin comments, and it is pissing me off.First of all – you fucking fake Christians - don’t fucking question my Christianity. I grew up in the church. My grandfather was a minister, who is with God now and talks to me in my dreams from God’s corner office. I am a former Sunday school teacher. I taught the Bible to children and showed them how to love God and invite him into their hearts. I believe in God – but I don’t fear him. God is my best friend. God is my ally. God is my boyfriend. God is my best fag. I am God’s fag hag cuz didn’t you know, God is a big fag. Serious bottom too. Butch in the streets, femme in the sheets. That is my God. God is my biggest fan. God gets me, dude.God wants us all to just get along. He doesn’t give a shit about the profanity. The bitch fucking invented profanity. He thinks it is hilarious. He just wants you to talk to him, and he doesn’t care what you have to say. He just wants to keep the conversation going. Like Jay-Z,he just wants to love you. He just wants you to be able to make your own decisions. God is all about you and what you need. God is happy that you are gay. God made you fucking gay cuz he thinks it is awesome. God understands if you need to have an abortion. That is why he created abortion, on the 8th day. God accepts. God forgives. God loves all of us, even though some of us might have a problem with each other.Don’t fucking question my Christianity you fucking idiot assholes. If you continue to have a problem, then talk to God about it, not me, you fucking racist homophobic misogynist fake Christian shitheads. God thinks it is funny that I swear so much. He said I could use his name in vain or whatever. He just wants me to use it. He loves me. So fuck you. And I guess he loves you too. Even though you are fake Christian assholes. If you were truly Christians, you would let gays get married, and send them fucking presents from Bed Bath and Beyond!If you truly believed in Jesus, you would try to be like him and love us, fags and dykes and feminists all. God bless you, even you. You fucking fuckers.

Everyone is a critic.....................................

and every theistic satanist is a sermon writing minister. Well most Satanists anyway. This is one aspect of the scene i really love, we all have something to say and you know what? we damn well say it. Even if (like me) the punctuation is a bit off, the spelling is a bit shabby or the fact that most of what we have to say has been said before. We don't let any of that stop us and why should it? After all there is nothing new under the sun (as some person once said) Many of us are also becoming ordained in the "Universal life church" or institutions that are equivalent. which is fantastic as we are joining an organization that actively embraces religious difference and seeing that as a good thing. Everyone of us (regardless of religious beliefs) have the right to share their beliefs with people but of course we should not force people to listen nor should we force them to believe what we believe. How boring would that kind of world be?

Censorship

I'm writing this edition of my blog from a library in the great city of Glasgow. During a surfing stint on the net I thought I would check out my website to see if i had a message from my mate Richard. Only to find that my site has been banned by the Glasgow council. One can only assume it is because it has Satan in it's title and satanist in it's web address. What annoyed me more was that, while looking for info for a uni essay; i typed in christian and got gazillion of sites so much for freedom of religion. By banning my site it makes it look like i have some really dodgy copy on it. I don't feel i do. Wonder if I had "Satan" in my blog title, if they would have banned me?

There is a guy next to me booking tickets for a play, on his blackberry and he is reading aloud his credit card number lol if only i was a fast typer, I would be booking tickets to Bali lol

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The Sikh girl

I think it's disgraceful that Sarika Singh won her court case against her school, for excluding her for wearing her religious bracelet. The school had a policy that no jewelry other than a watch and stud earrings should be worn on school premises. She knew this when she started at the school. She should have went and studied else where. She has made herself stand put from the crowd which is normally not a bad thing but in this case, it will cause her much grief. She has shown that she is not prepared to integrate into secular society, people get nervous and suspicious of people who deliberately segregate themselves. Look at the Jews as an example, much anti-semitism was cause by their instance of separatism from non Jews. So what is so special about this bracelet then?

The bangle is used to represent infinity therefore God, many Sikhs say that when it (The bangle) hits against something, they are reminded of God's existence and of his love. The bangle forms part of "The 5 K's" that are worn by Sikhs that follow the khalsa brand of Sikhism. The 5 k's are

1. Kesh (uncut hair)
2. Kangha ( comb)
3. Kirpan (Sword)
4. Kachh (Cotton breeches)
5. Kara (Bangle)

Interestingly the "Kara" was not one of the K's until the 17th century.

This isn't an anti-Sikhism post, on the contrary I really like Sikhism. I just feel that now the world is becoming more and more integrated religiously we need to have places where religion is not an issue and schools ( apart from R.E lessons) should be that place. Rules should apply to everyone. Or the rules should be changed.

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Cosmic ordering

Recently I bought a book all about Cosmic ordering. It was the book that gave Noel Edmonds the chance to re-start his career . It is actully a very good read and it's a short book which is always good. Basiclly it teaches that you can have anything you want as long as you ask the cosmos for it. For example before you go out to the supermarket, you could aks the cosmos to let you get a
parking space when you get there. Aparently it (Cosmic ordering) works better with happy people, as the univesre likes happy people. I haven't tried it yet but I will soon. I might even post the results here.

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This weekend

This weekend is chalk full of religious holidays. Thanks to Easter being so early this year, apparently it is the earliest it's been for 70 years! So this weekend Christians celebrate along side Wiccan's and Demonolaters. (bet they love that lol)
So:
Happy Easter
Happy Ostara
And
Happy Rite to Lucifer

Here is my prayer to Lucifer.

Lord Lucifer, it's with your gifts of knowledge,
that have brought me out of the darkness and into the ever bright light,
With you I can see the future,and have the strength to face what ever comes my way
Hail to Spring, Hail New beginnings.
Hail Lucifer!

Belphegore

I did a small ritual a few months ago to the Demon "Belphegore" who is the demon of financial matters (amongst other things) basically i just wanted help with finance. Ever since the rite, i have been more organized and i have been better at budgeting. But today I got a pay rise at work and the opportunity to learn new skills which will increase my pay in the coming year. You may ask why a Satanist would want to work with demons, and Aren't demons evil, scary etc? So here is a quick lesson Demonloatry 101

• Demonolatry is the worship of Demons
• Demons are "Divine intelligence replete with wisdom"
• Demonology is the study of demons
• Demons are not seen as evil by Demonolaters (that is a christian myth)
• Most demons were pre-chrstian gods
• The 2 most popular Demonolatry pantheons are "The Goetic" and "Dukante"
• Satan is the head (for want of a better word) of all the demon pantheons.
• All demonoaters ARE theistic satanists, but most prefer Demonolater
• Not all theistic Satanists are demonolaters
• Buffy,Charmed etc are NOT accurate portrayals of demons
• Respect the Demons and they will respect you.
• Demonolatry is a nature based relgion
• To some the demons are real deities
• To some they are mearly energy
• The self is also worshiped
• Demonolaters work to find the personal divine that is in us all
• Demonolaters do not belive in "Good" or "Evil" but see things in shades of grey
• Each and every demon is a part of us and we them.
• Everything in the earth is interconnected.
• Hermetic philopophy is important (and a base) of demonolatry

So that was your little lesson for today :O) Next time basic Hermetics!

I personally do not call my self a demonolater but i do believe in it,most of my religious views are the same as those found in demonolatry, i celebrate the holidays. I just prefer calling myself a theistic satanist.

I have had an article I wrote on "life coaching and demonolatry" published in this magazine (you can dowload it for free from this site http://www.lulu.com/content/759108 I have also had a prayer published in a demonolatry prayer book which can be downloaded free here http://www.lulu.com/content/282790

Hail Belphegore!

A Joke

While I disagree with the portrayal of Satan in this joke, it's still pretty funny. If you substitute "Satan" for " Jehovah" it's more realistic portryal of the bible god than to my old man.

Just minutes before the church services started the towns people were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate. Soon everyone had exited the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God's ultimate enemy was in his presence.So Satan walked up to the old man and said, 'Don't you know who I am?'The man replied, 'Yep, sure do.''Aren't you afraid of me?' Satan asked.'Nope, sure ain't' said the man.'Don't you realize I can kill you with a word?' asked Satan.'Don't doubt it for a minute,' returned the old man in an even tone.'Did you know that I could cause you profound, horrifying, physical agony forever?''Yep,' was the calm reply.'And you're still not afraid?' asked Satan.'Nope '. 'More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, 'well, why aren't you afraid of me?'The man calmly replied, 'been married to your sister for 45 years.'

Quaker's

I am a huge fan of the Christian denomination know as "The religious society of friends" AKA Quaker's. I love that they see God in everybody, which is pretty "Hermetic" view for Christians, I love that they have no minister at their meetings so everyone is equal and all have a chance to participate in their service. I love that they do not hold the bible as the be all and end all of belief, they look into themselves, their inner light for guidance. Most of them support the right to hold differing religious beliefs from one and other. A great example of this was told to me the other day by my Quaker friend "Pete" (A fellow ULC member) He is a nurse in a hospital in England and he is also on the Chaplaincy rota for the hospital. All the Chaplin's were having a meeting about how people should be treated spiritually while in hospital. They (the group) said that Satanists should be banned outright from working in the hospital. Pete actually stood up and defended Satanists on the grounds that everyone deserves the right to spiritual counselling if needed. How great was that? What a guy!!!

The symbol of Baphomet

Recently I have taken to adopting the symbol of Baphomet (see pic at side of blog) as my religious symbol of choice. I hesitated for a year or so because I felt that it was very much taken over by Modern Satanists; but now I feel that we (trad Satanists) have the right to wear it too. I have it as a pendant but i chose not to wear it over my clothes to often, as i feel i want the symbol for myself as a personal statement. Also i have never been big on wearing religious jewellery full stop.
A couple of people I have talked to have thought the symbol was scary, while i can see why they think that. I don't think it is any more scary than having a dead man hanging from a cross around you neck. The Baphomet (to me) is a symbol of freedom, of personal power, of loving life, of true free will and of Independence. Yes the Crucifix also stands for some great things, forgiveness of sin, of love but it is also a symbol of fear, of guilt and of violence. I like my symbol better.